New Chipping Method

Sneakylong

Tried a new chipping style yesterday. Basically just stood the club up vertically with the tow down and heel up and just used a putting stroke. Didn't use a lot of wrist movement either. Just practiced chipping a few before we played.

Worked great. Worked with a 6 iron all the way down to a sand wedge. I'm the type that always used a Gap wedge for chipping and was very inconsistent. This seems to be chili dip and skull proof. Could be a keeper.

fatshot

Sneakylong
Basically just stood the club up vertically with the tow down and heel up and just used a putting stroke.

That's the way a friend of mine chips. I should try it....he's deadly with it!

Rickochet

Sneakylong Tried a new chipping style yesterday. Basically just stood the club up vertically with the tow down and heel up and just used a putting stroke.

I got the shanks really bad last summer with short pitches/chip shots. Once I was about 5 yards from the green and shanked three in a row. I took the wrist movement out and did exactly as you were doing and it took the shanks out immediately.

Nat

Sneakylong
There is nothing new in golf - there is a great video on Youtube (?) I watched 20 years ago.
It definitely works. The nice thing is you can use the same stroke and vary trajectory/distance with club selection. I know a + handicapper who uses this tech cross handed.

azgreg

Sneakylong

azgreg

Yeah she describes it well, but her shaft isn't as vertical thus her heel isn't as much off the ground as mine. The picture she used (at 1:55) had the heel up the way I did it. But yeah, there's less spin and the ball runs out.

I used a 7 iron and chipped it 4 feet behind the hole from 40 feet or so. And I used a 54 degree wedge and chipped it over a bunker to about 5 feet. It's so much more consistent.

Par4QC

I'm laughing because I thought everyone knew about this method. I've used it since the 1st year I started golfing. Had a heck of a time getting to the green, and after reading a bit, figured I better start at the green and go backwards, for improvement. Found the 6i to be the best to use, and just used my normal putting stroke. With all the finagling of lofts through the years, I've now settled on the 8i, sometimes 7i, for chips; even some pitches. If you read the chip like you would a putt, you will start to have some 'no putt' holes; there have been far too many to remember through all these years. Plus, the putts are shorter, and more made. Lots more.

I literally went from shooting in the 90's....for 9 holes, to shooting low 40's, for 9, in the 1st summer of golf. Mainly from the chipping & putting. Still works, as it should, and much more needed as the years have gone by.
Never understood those that immediately pulled the wedges for those shots, even the Pros.

KCee

I've used this and it works quite well. Problem for me is that I rarely have that nice simple run up shot. My miss is not usually just short of the green, but shortsided lol. My scores would be so much better if I missed short of the green more often. I am usually grabbing my LW and seeing what further trouble I can get into.

Par4QC

KCee My scores would be so much better if I missed short of the green more often.

I, more or less, do it deliberately. A lot of those chips are holed during the season, and the scores do come down; sometimes considerably. The 'hard-nosed', will say that's no way to play golf. I say it's the best way.
I find if aiming for merely the front of the green, it takes a lot of bad shit out of play, esp. bunkers, or the kind of crap they like to have behind greens today. I'd rather miss the green by 5 yds. in the FW, than by 5' in the bunker/deep rough.

SMT

Her visual definition of a chip shot is incorrect.

A PITCH shot is more air time than ground time
A CHIP shot is more ground time than air time.

My question would be.... Why, when the heel of the club is off the ground, does that reduce spin?

It actually reduces drag on the turf and your probability of stubbing the shot.

KCee

Par4QC Short is generally the better miss at my course. I can't think of a hole where long is good so I never "club up" unless there is wind into me. There are a few holes where I try to err towards coming up short but everyone does because the middle of the green just doesn't hold most shots and long is dead. Last year I had this high draw left miss going and it was giving me fits.

Spuzz

Hard pass.

azgreg

Is this better assholes?

SMT

azgreg Is this better assholes?

Sounds like Thanksgiving at my house.

SMT

azgreg
Actually, absolutely not. He cannot make that blanket statement about carry vs, rollout without discussing uphill or downhill or carry distance vs. distance to the pin.

His numbers, in this video mean nothing.

azgreg

SMT
You're dead to me.

SMT

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candukid

Why wouldn’t this push everything to the right?

Sneakylong

candukid

Try it. It doesn't push it to the right. Just hold the club more upright like a putter and use your putting stroke like Ray Floyd says. Again, very hard to stub it or skull it. I like less wrist action which Lee Trevino always advocated when chipping as well.

Supp

It looks intriguing. I think I'll fool around with it for a while.

LBlack14

Get a chipper and be done with it. KISS.

Par4QC

LBlack14 No! Because then you would be like my son, use it from 120.
I told him how damn dumb that looked when he was 1 putting. 😆

Subsonic

LBlack14 Love my Cleveland Chipper. Zero Fks about what others think. It is like Frank's Red Hot. I use that sht on everything!